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erudite,
pedant.
outlier
lionizing
totalitarian
utopia.
Opposite of dystopia
archetypal
ideology,
hubris,
purport
supplanted,
proletariat).
gulag,
Rearing kids is hard, work is hard, aging, sickness and death are hard, and Jordan emphasized that doing all that totally on your own, without the benefit of a loving relationship, or wisdom, or the psychological insights of the greatest psychologists, only makes it harder.
“virtue”
anachronistically
Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other.
nihilism
proclivity
ineradicably
And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.
stultified
Because if you don’t reach for them, it is certain you will never feel that your life has meaning.
And perhaps because, as unfamiliar and strange as it sounds, in the deepest part of our psyche, we all want to be judged.
“What’s the difference between being happy and being content?”, “What things get better as you age?” and “What makes life more meaningful?”
Order and chaos are the yang and yin of the famous Taoist symbol: two serpents, head to tail.*1 Order is the white, masculine serpent; Chaos, its black, feminine counterpart. The black dot in the white—and the white in the black—indicate the possibility of transformation: just when things seem secure, the unknown can loom, unexpectedly and large. Conversely, just when everything seems lost, new order can emerge from catastrophe and chaos.
conflagrations
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
aggrieved
that the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being, and that the willingness to take on that responsibility is identical to the decision to live a meaningful life.
deign
detritus
dicta
computationally
paramours
buttress
despot
There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary.
elephantiasis
disparaging
The systems that mediate negative emotion are tightly tied to the properly cyclical circadian rhythms.
agoraphobia.
malevolence
